The Ancient and Medieval Architecture of India: A Study of Indo-Aryan Civilisation c9.20

c9.20

sophical speculations which sometimes astonishes the European who tries to penetrate beneath the surface of Indian life. All this fine traditional culture is being entirely swept away in British India and in "progressive" native states by systems of education devised in the offices of Anglo-Indian cities, as far removed from real Indian life as Manchester and Birmingham, which destroy the spirituality of Indian life, turn the village craftsmen into city clerks, and uproot the whole foundation of Indian civilisation, based upon a far more perfect conception of law and order than that which they seek to establish.